The report documented that drug courts provided intensive, long-term intervention and treatment services to offenders with long histories of drug use and criminal justice contacts, previous treatment failures, and high rates of health and social problems.

Preliminary national results showed that after 12 months, the proportion of enrolled women abstinent (as measured by no use in the past month) from alcohol increased by 60%, those abstinent from cocaine increased by 34% and those abstinent from marijuana by more than 20%.

This survey found that regardless of a teen’s family structure—two parents, a single mother, etc.—their risk of smoking, drinking and using illegal drugs in households where parents were involved (also known as a “hands-on” parent) in their children’s lives was dramatically lower than that of the average teen.

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